The view from Budapest

Today is Easter Monday in Hungary and in many Catholic nations around the world. Here’s wikipedia’s explaination. It is basically just an extension of the Easter celebration.

Even though it is a holiday, I’m at the office. With my conference starting on Sunday, I couldn’t afford the day off. It will be [...]

Well, some people blog more when they get busy (like my brother-in-law going to Brazil). I, on the other hand, blog less. It seems that when life gets busy, blogging is the first thing to go.

Anyway, there is a reason for my busyness. In 11 days, 50 people from around the world will be [...]

Tonight is a big night for Aggie Basketball. Although, we didn’t make it to the big dance, we are playing in the post-season for the first time in a long time. I think we have a chance to go far because we have played against tough competition in the Big-12 all year.

It is a tough [...]

Here we are outside of Starbucks in Wien. Every trip to Wien requires a visit to Starbucks. It is more expensive than in the US and the sizes are smaller, but it feels so American!!! It is so nice to enjoy something that is so familiar. I’ll have a Grande Mocha please!

Food, Glorious Food. When you are in Wien (not Vienna – see earlier post), the you have to eat Wienerschnitzel! A few years ago when I first visited, I found this restaurant called Figlmüller. It has the biggest Wienerschnitzel in the world. It hangs over the edge of the plate and it is incredible. I’ve [...]

Yesterday we went to Vienna with my parents. This brought up one of my biggest pet peeves about the world. Why does every language have different names for cities?

For instance, Vienna. We call it “Vienna”, the real name in German is Wien, in Hungarian it is Bécs (pronounced Baych). What [...]

My parents have been here in Budapest for the past week! My dad has been doing some Project Management Training for some of our Bulgarian Staff. It has been a great time. Here’s Dad reading a book to the kids. Is there anything better than having your grandfather read you a book? 

Valerie & I try to continually remind ourselves that everything we have is the Lord’s. Therefore, if he wants something to go wrong with his stuff, then that is His problem and we just need to trust Him.

Tonight, the Lord decided that it would be okay if the key wouldn’t turn in the ignition [...]

We are so glad that my parents came back to Budapest on Saturday for their third visit. My dad, also named Tom, works for Campus Crusade for Christ at the headquarters in Orlando. He is coming to work with our staff in Bulgaria and here in Budapest do some planning for a major [...]

I thought I would give all of you folks a little education in the greatness that is train travel!!!   When I first had the opportunity to ride a train here in Eastern Europe, I thought it would just be an adventurous cool thing to do.  What I found out is that it is [...]